i hold a rather large position in qwst. I suspect that qwst is seriously bidding to buy IBM's global network. I saw this in a few articles and this thinking has been re-inforced by the announcement between qwst and netscape today.

Are there any specific forms that a firm registers with the SEC when they are going into acquisition mode???

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